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Top 50 MBA - Average GRE Verbal, GRE Quant and GRE Total Scores

TOP 50 MBAs - GRE Scores 

Tuck MBA has most students (42%), submitting GRE scores, followed by Stanford at 39%. At 37% - Both Yale and McDonough stand at third position. From the list of 50 Top Business Schools, only 7 had published this data.

Yale with 330 has the highest average total GRE score followed by Stanford (328) and HAAS (327). Wharton and MIT have a relatively lower average total GRE of 324.

Highest GRE Score: Yale also have the highest individual average GRE verbal and Quant scores of 164 and 166 respectively.

Low Verbal GRE Score: NUS, Kelley, Foster, BU Questrom, and Rochester have a low GRE verbal average but competitive GRE Quant (above 163).

Balanced GRE Scores: Schools with close GRE Verbal and GRE Quant scores (within 0-1 points) include Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, and McCombs.

Related: GMAT, GPA and Total GRE - Top 70 MBA programs

Top 50 MBAVerbal GRE Score (Average or Median)Quant GRE Score (Average or Median)Total GRE Score (Average or Median)% GRE Submitted
Harvard163 (M)163 (M)326 (M)34%
Stanford16416432839%
Wharton162 (A)162 (A)324 (A)NA
Booth162 (A)163 (A)325 (A)29%
Kellogg163 (M)163 (M)326 (M)NA
MIT Sloan161 (A)163 (A)324 (A)NA
Tuck161 (A)161 (A)32242%
Yale164 (M)166 (M)33037%
DardenNANA321NA
Haas162 (M)165 (M)327NA
Ross160 (A)162 (A)322NA
NYU Stern163 (A)163 (A)32622%
McCombs160 (A)161 (A)321NA
TepperNANA324 (A)NA
McDonoughNANA318 (A)37%
Rice JonesNANA317 (A)NA
NUS MBA155 (A)165 (A)320NA
Kelley MBA158 (A)164 (A)322 (A)NA
Foster MBA158 (M)164 (M)322NA
USC Marshall160 (A)163 (A)323NA
Mendoza CollegeNANA315 (M)NA
BU Questrom School of Business155 (A)159 (A)314NA
ISB PGPNANA325 (A)NA
Rochester – Simon School of Business155 (A)158 (A)313 (A)NA
Georgia Tech Scheler School of Business159 (A)163 (A)322 (A)NA

*M: Median; A: Average
 

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I am Atul Jose, Founding Consultant of F1GMAT, an MBA admissions consultancy that has worked with applicants since 2009.

 

For the past 15 years I have edited the application files of admits to the M7 programs: Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg School of Management, and Columbia Business School, together with admits to Berkeley Haas, Yale School of Management, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, Duke Fuqua, Darden, Tuck, IMD, London Business School, INSEAD, SDA Bocconi, IESE Business School, HEC Paris, McCombs, and Tepper, plus other programs inside the global top 30.

 

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